Yugi's purple eye color changes to red whenever he's taken over by Dark Yugi.

Shadi's eyes are amber as opposed to the dull blue in the manga.

Bakura's hair is blue and he has green eyes (purple when Dark Bakura takes over), as opposed to his white hair and blue or purple eyes in the manga.

The school uniforms for the girls are orange instead of pink, with green bows and skirts instead of blue.

It's subverted in the movie where he has brown hair and light blue eyes, which is closer to his usual appearance.

Kaiba is depicted with bright green hair and gold eyes, in contrast to his dark brown hair and blue eyes in the manga.

Adapted Out: Several manga characters, such as Hanasaki, Sozoji, and Yugi's mother, don't appear in this anime, nor do their respective stories.

Actionized Adaptation: The anime expanded several manga-based chapters by adding more fights, as well as in original content, such as a fighting game between Jonouchi and Aileen Rao at Death-T.

Aborted Arc: Because this adaptation was canceled before it got to Duelist Kingdom, among other things we never see Toei's version of Kaiba put together the last pieces of his shattered heart and become nicer.

Abusive Parents: Jonouchi's alcoholic father is implied to beat him.

Abandoned Warehouse: The setting for confrontations with the yo-yo gang, Warashibe, and Kujirada.

As that anime series was done by a different studio and re-imagined some of the manga chapters that this anime also covered, Toei's anime series was never exported outside of Japan. Owing to its obscurity, the series was overshadowed by the second anime adaptation, known as Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters in Japan, and its English localization by 4Kids Entertainment. It also borrows plot elements that aren't introduced until the Duelist Kingdom arc, such as the early introduction of Shizuka, Jonouchi's sister.

Many chapters were reworked to fit the length of an entire episode, and a number of the original games were either imported or replaced. However, this series skips many chapters of the manga in favor of original scenarios and features a one-shot character from the manga, Miho Nosaka, as a main character.

The first Yu-Gi-Oh! anime series (also misleadingly nicknamed Season 0) was a 27-episode adaptation of the manga series by Kazuki Takahashi, produced by Toei Animation in 1998.īased on the first seven volumes of the manga, Toei's series loosely covers the events of Yugi completing the Millennium Puzzle up to the Monster World RPG arc.

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